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Originally Posted by Peter7307
An interesting thread.
There must be a huge number of times when a shipment has to get to a place but the time factor is virtually immaterial...and the savings i shipping costs can more than make up for costs of having that inventory sitting on the boat for the extra time.
The ideal concept of JIT (Just In Time) inventory management has driven this to a large extent despite the number of times it actually fails miserably in the real world.
Hopefully we will see some common sense returning some time soon.
Pete.
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The JIT inventory thing drives me nuts. Nobody wants to stock anything. If you're going to use something anyway and it's not perishable, keep a supply and top off when you can get a deal on it, and have it shipped slow and cheap. Save yourself some money. No, instead they wait till crunch time, then pay expediting fees, next day shipping, and it ends up costing more in shipping than for the actual item. And they do it every time.